Ilinca Stanciulescu

TL;DR: In this paper, a 3D tire-pavement interaction model was developed to predict the tire contact stress distributions for future use in the mechanistic analysis of pavement responses, showing that the non-uniformity of vertical contact stresses decreases as the load increases, but increases as the inflation pressure increases.

TL;DR: In this paper, a 3D tire-pavement interaction model was developed using the FEM to analyze the forces and contact stresses generated during vehicle maneuvering (free rolling, braking/acceleration, and cornering).

TL;DR: In this article, the buckling analysis of a benchmark cylindrical panel undergoing snap-through when subjected to transverse loads is revisited, and a numerical procedure composed of the arclength and branch switching methods is used to identify the full postbuckling response of the panel.

TL;DR: In this paper, a robust time integration scheme for snap-through buckling of shallow arches is proposed, which is a composite method that consists of three sub-steps, and numerical damping is introduced to the system by employing an algorithm similar to the backward differentiation formulas method in the last sub step.

TL;DR: In this article, a non-linear finite element formulation (three dimensional continuum elements) is implemented and used for modeling dynamic snap-through in beams with initial curvature, and a critical temperature value below which the beam will no longer experience snapthrough under any magnitude of applied quasi-static load for beams with various curvatures is identified.